Method of making fishing eeels



(No Model.)

J. KOPP.

METHOD OF MAKING FISHING REELS.

No. 309,305. Patented Dec. I6, 1884.

UNITE Brains 'arnnr rarest.

JOHN KOPF, OF BROOKLYN, NEWV YORK, ASSIGNOB OF ONE-HALF TO THOMAS B. MILLS, OF SAME PLACE.

METHOD OF MAKING FlSHlNG-REELS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent lN'o. 309,305, dated December I6, 1884.

I Application filed April 28, 1884. (N0 model.)

1'0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN Korn, of the city of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and use ful Improvement in the Method of Making Fishing-Reels, of which the following is a specifieation.

Heretofore the base-plate and heads of a fishing-reel have been made of separate pieces secured together by screws or other means, and the heads have been connected by one or more pillars or cross-braces, which are also separate pieces from the heads; hence in the simplest reel, having but a single pillar or cross-brace between the heads, the frame has consisted of four parts, irrespective of the screws whereby said parts are often conneeted.

The essential object of my invention is to enable the frames of simple reels to be produced at a much less cost, so as to furnish a serviceable reel at a very low price as compared with the prices now prevailing.

In carrying out my invention I stamp or cut from sheet metal by means of suitable dies a blank comprising disk-like portions for the heads of the reel, and a portion between said disk-like portions and connected with them by necks adapted to form the base-plate of the reel, and subsequently I bend these necks so as to bring the disk-1ike portions into positions parallel with each other and at right angles to the base-plate.

To complete the frame of the reel a cross brace or tie is secured between the disk-like portions at a point opposite or nearly opposite to the base-plate, so as to holdthe heads at a proper distance apart. This cross brace or tie may be a piece separate from the other parts of the frame, in which case the frame would consist of but two pieces; or the said cross brace or tie may be produced as a narrow tongue projecting from oneof the disklike portions of the blank, and after the said disk-like portions are bent into positions parallel with each other to form the heads the brace portion or tie isbent down so as to extend between them, and is secured at its free end by solder or otherwise to one of said heads. The frame would then be composed entirely of one piece of metal.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side View of a reel embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is an end view thereof. Fig. 3 is ascetional view of the reel in a plane parallel with the axis of the spool. Fig. 4. is a plan view of the frame, and Fig. 5 is a plan of the blank employed to produce the frame before bending it to bring the several portions to their final positions.

Similar letters of reference designate corresponding parts in all the figures.

A designates the spool of the reel, provided with the usual checks or flanges, a, and with journals Z), to one of which a handle, 0, is secured for turning the spool. The frame of the reel is composed of a base plate or piece, B, heads or head portions B B, and a cross brace or tie, B The base-plate B and head portions B B, I produce from a single piece or blank of metal, and preferably, also, the cross brace or tie B is produced integral with saidparts, as here shown. In making this reel frame I first stamp or cut from sheet or plate brass or other metal by suitable dies a blank" of substantially the form shown in Fig. 5. In this blank the base portion B is intermediate between two disk-like portions B B, which are to form the heads, and which are joined to it by narrow necks of metal d. The bearings cl for the journals 1) of the spool A are punched or drilled concentrically in the portions B B, and these portions are countersunk or recessed at c by a fraising-tool or otherwise to receive the flanges a of the spool A. 'W'hen the cross brace or tie B is to be formed integral with the base-piece B and heads B, it is formed a tongue projecting from one of the head portions B, and may have a dovetailed tenon, at the outer end, which, in completing the frame, is secured in .a correspondingly-dovetailed notch or mortise, f, in the other head portion B, as hereinafter described. \Vhen the cross piece or tie B is to be a separate piece, the head portions B of the blank are produced with lugs, as shown by dotted lines in Fig. 5, which are to receive the ends of a pillar or rod, and the piece B is omitted.

The blank having been produced as described, the necks d are bent on the dotted lines as a: to bring the head portions B into positions parallel with each other and at rightangles to the base portion B. The journals 2) of the spool are introduced into their bearin gs WVhat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

.1. The method of forming the base-plate and heads of a reel, consisting in producing a blank havingdisk-like head portions B on oppositesides of an intermediate base portion, B, and in bending the blank upon the lines :0 x to bring the said head portions into positions parallel with each other and at right angles to said base portions, substantially as herein described.

2. The method of forming the base-plate, heads, and cross brace or tie of a reel, consisting in producing a blank having disklike head portions B on opposite sides of an intermediate base portion, B, and a tongue, B, extending from one of said head portions, inbending the blank upon the lines as a; to bring the head portions B into positions parallel with each other and at right angles to said base portion, in bending the blank upon the line y 3 to bring the tongue B into a position at right angles to the head from which it projects, and in securing the free end of said tongue to the opposite head, substantially as herein described.

JOHN KOPF.

Vvitnesses O. HALL, FREDK. HAYNES. 

